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    "ocrText": "BURTON K. WHEELER, MONT., CHAIRMAN\nELLISON D. SMITH, S. c.\nWALLACE H. WHITE, JR., MAINE\nROBERT F. WAGNER, N. Y.\nWARREN R. AUSTIN, VT.\nALBEN W. BARKLEY, KY.\nHENRIK SHIPSTEAD, MINN.\nM. M. NEELY, W. VA.\nCHARLES W. TOBEY, N. H.\nHOMER T. BONE, WASH.\nCLYDE M. REED, KANS.\nVIC DONAHEY, OHIO\nCHAN GURNEY, S. DAK\nUnited States Senate\nSHERMAN MINTON, IND.\nHARRY S. TRUMAN, MO.\nCOMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE COMMERCE\nCHARLES o. ANDREWS, FLA.\nEDWIN c. JOHNSON, COLO.\nHARRY H. SCHWARTZ, WYO.\nLISTER HILL, ALA.\nWashington, D. C.\nERNEST LUNDEEN, MINN.\nTOM STEWART, TENN.\nJuly 27, 1939\nM. W. MITCHELL, CLERK\nHonorable Edgar G. Hinde\nPostmaster\nIndependence, Missouri\nDear Edgar:\nAppreciate very much your telegram of the Twenty Sixth and\nletter of the Twenty Fourth, and it was particularyly grati-\nfying to learn that Thompson had finally sent his endorsement.\nI am sorry that you did not make the proper impression on the\neditor of the greatest newspaper in the world but I think he\nwill probably come around. He wrote me one of the nicest letters\nI have ever received.\nI am not running for Secretary of War, Governor General of the\nPhilippines, Vice President of a railroad or anything of the sort.\nI am going to run for re-election to the United States Senate,\nand put all my postmasters on the spot; one bald-headed one I\nknow in particular, although I don't think he will be in much\nof a spot.\nI finally agreed on Henry Dillingham for United States Marshal,\nand I am trying to get a job for Canfil with the Secret Service\nor as United States Marshal in Puerto Rico. I don't know whether\nhe would accept that assignment or not but I am trying to get\nhim fixed up.\nI hope to see you some time soon, and I am glad that you are\nintending to get off the Purity bandwagon.\nSincerely,\nHST:MLD\nthe Harry gaug S. Truman they d letter\nthey\nputa a padlock then pennies."
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